Date read: December 29, 2010 - January 2, 2010
My Edition: 337 pages, year 2005
Published by: Penguin Books
Rating: 5 kisses
Summary: http://www.suemonkkidd.com/MermaidChair/default.aspx
Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint, who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion.
When Jessie is summoned home to the island to cope with her eccentric mother’s seemingly inexplicable act of violence, she is living a conventional life with her husband, Hugh, a life “molded to the smallest space possible.” Jessie loves Hugh, but once on the island, she finds herself drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is soon to take his final vows.
Amid a rich community of unforgettable island women and the exotic beauty of marshlands, tidal creeks and majestic egrets, Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, with a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right and the immutable force of home and marriage. Is the power of the mermaid chair only a myth? Or will it alter the course of Jessie’s life? What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother’s tormented past, but most of all, allow Jessie to make a marriage unto herself.
Where does the yearning for soul-mated love come from? When it comes to love, what are the pulls inside a woman between the ordinary and the sublime? The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel about mermaids and saints, about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body, brilliantly illuminating the awakening of a woman to her own deepest self.
Haha! JokeFavorite Quote: "Falling in love was the oldest, most ruthless catalyst on earth."
Review:
This book is in the middle of an almost favorite to favorite book. I just loved how it was written and the story itself was really really good. It made me cry (which gave it an additional kiss!) and thought me a lot about change, love, forgiveness and also about SELF-DISCOVERY. This is a woman's book, a mommy book and I loved it (even though I used to hate mommy books since its so hard to relate to cause mommies, generally, don't have time for reading!). However, it was hard for me to accept that the woman is having an affair with a Benedictine MONK. I'm a Catholic and was educated in a Benedictine school. I'm not usually conservative when it comes to stories and plots but it was really hard to swallow. What I do is pretend that Whit was a fisherman and not a monk. It was just to weird for me, but its a good book nonetheless. If you have an open-mind, you might love it.
And it was made into a made-for-TV movie starring Kim Basinger. I'll try to watch it and review but I generally stay away from movies adapted from books. They tend to suck! haha
Watch the trailer!
My soundtrack:
1. Before the Worst by The Script
2. Unfaithful by Rihanna
3. Way Back Into Love by Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore
4. Love Me by The Cardigans
5. Tonight I Wanna Cry by Keith Urban
Stop blogging and
go go go!
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